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From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Lista Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: /proc/kcore size
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:04:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040112090404.GA2588@werewolf.able.es> (raw)

Hi all...

To the request of one of my users, I installed the 'hinv' program (1.4pre1) by
Larry McVoy.

Problem: it detects the memory amount in the box by stat'ing /proc/kcore.
Thats not the problem, but that the box has 1Gb of memory, and kcore is just
896Mb big.

Kernel is built with 4Gb support:

annwn:/proc# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1033172    1017772      15400          0     164792     556416
-/+ buffers/cache:     296564     736608
Swap:      1951856          8    1951848

annwn:/proc# hinv
Main memory size: 896 Mbytes
...

annwn:/proc# ll /proc/kcore
-r--------    1 root     root     939528192 Jan 12 10:02 /proc/kcore

Exactly the same as a box that has _really_ 896 Mb:

werewolf:/proc# ll kcore
-r--------    1 root     root     939528192 Jan 12 10:02 kcore

werewolf:/proc# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        905012     276008     629004          0      27268     109344
-/+ buffers/cache:     139396     765616
Swap:       345356          0     345356

BUG ?

TIA

-- 
J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()able!es>     \                 Software is like sex:
werewolf!able!es                         \           It's better when it's free
Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.6.1-jam2 (gcc 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-4mdk))

             reply	other threads:[~2004-01-12  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-12  9:04 J.A. Magallon [this message]
2004-01-12  9:08 ` /proc/kcore size J.A. Magallon
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2004-01-12 18:00 Luck, Tony
2004-01-12 18:52 ` Jesse Barnes

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